Lambrecht Chevrolet

Gary Leidich’s brother and brother-in-law could see through the dust and dirt of the grimy 1963 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe sitting in a field in Pierce, Nebraska, in September 2013. The Impala was one of 50 unsold Chevrolets still on MSO that had been collected by Ray Lambrecht, who operated Lambrecht Chevrolet from a...

Kicking yourself for not bidding on the Lambrecht car of your dreams? During the next 10 days, you’ll have one final chance to buy a car or truck at no reserve from the highly publicized auction in Pierce, Neb. According to Yvette VanDerBrink of VanDerBrink Auctions, a small handful of online bidders couldn’t fulfill...

Prices were strong in the Lambrecht Chevrolet collection auction in Pierce, Nebraska, Sept. 27-28. VanDerBrink Auctions, with assistance from Proxibid, started off selling NOS Chevy parts higher than market value. Hub cap sets sold for $400 and other ridiculous prices were paid. Among the vehicles, the first to go under the auction hammer was...

Approximately 40 days before the VanDerBrink Auctions sale of the Lambrecht Chevrolet Collection in Pierce, Nebraska, on Sept. 28-29, the 50 never-sold Chevy cars and trucks and 500 low-mileage trade-in cars and trucks were already attracted heated online bids. Yvette VanDerBrink said there were 2,000 registered online and in-person bidders; compare that to an...

If your oil pressure rises for unrestored-originals like mine does, you’re in a very special time right now, especially if you like low-mileage Chevrolet cars and trucks. In more than 30 years of reading car publications old and new, I can never recall a stash of so many cars with so few miles surfacing...

New Old Chevys UPDATE: Find the complete list of cars from the Lambrecht Collection here.Inventory_Preliminary-2 By Ron Kowalke Pierce, Neb., will have the feel of the past Sept. 28, when fall meant the arrival of the eagerly anticipated launch of new model cars and trucks at auto dealerships around the country. In this instance,...

With excitement growing for the dispersal of the Ray and Mildred Lambrecht Collection of low-mileage Chevrolets, Yvette VanDerBrink has offered us this preview of the nearly 500 cars and trucks that will go up for bids Sept. 28 in Pierce, Neb. No, these are not misprints — the cars in the list below are...